Something unexpected that made you go "wtf??"

I was volunteering for my daughter’s kindergarten ( ages 5&6) class. The teacher asked me to do a little group circle where each child shared how their weekend went. This adorable little girl replied “ Well my daddy went to jail. Which is so funny as my mummy is the one who usually goes!”.

The lovely teacher took over after that. She later assured me the school was aware of the child’s family history and was keeping an eye on it.

On a train last week, and a guy sat down on opposite seat carriage, and initiates conversation (why me….!) I was polite at first until it turned out he was a rabid anti vaxxer and apparently if you have the vaccine you can put a magnet on your arm and it will stick as there is mercury in it…. Luckily he got off at the next stop as I was ….. err, wtf….

@Inaseagull

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Sat on a train once at a table seat with a middle aged woman opposite me. Hadn't made any conversation, then a few hours in she rustles around in her bag, pulls out a box of tampons and smacks it down on the table in front of me looking at me in the eyes. I didn't really know what to do so I smiled awkwardly and tried to look away. The next thing I know, she is opens the box, which is not filled with tampons but a couple of sandwiches she had obviously made that morning. She proceeded to eat them, the whole time looking at me with a smirk on her face as if she wanted me to ask why she wasn't using a lunchbox

On honeymoon, DH and I were on a trip to the jungle. One evening we were sat eating dinner with another family- silent husband, bookish child of around 10, and the wife was some sort of very eminent academic from Venezuela, very well-read and charming.

As we got stuck into our food, the MOST ENORMOUS palm-sized mega-hornet lowered itself into our vision like something from Apocalypse Now, and came to rest on the plate of the wife. It had a gigantic stinger, twitching away, probably as hideously poisonous as everything else in the jungle.

She didn't bat a eyelid, didn't even pause her conversation on Venezuelan politics or break eye contact, but plunged her fork into the creature's back and calmly and slowly sawed its head off with her steak knife. Which she then wiped on her plate and carried on eating and chatting. We were awestuck. They make 'em tough in Venezuela!

In my early 20s, hanging out in Soho opposite a stage door waiting for my friend to come and meet me. Standing there minding my own business and a guy about the same age as me walks up right to me and karate kicks at my face - his foot stopped about one inch from the side of my face - takes his foot back down and saunters off. I was like wtf just happened, looked around and no one else had seen it. That was really weird.

A decesed neighbour of mines son walks humans about on leads I saw his name in the paper he had been arrested

Friend of mine used to work in a video shop years ago, she told me she had this really nice woman, a regular customer who would always chat to her, seemed lovely etc but one day my friend pointed to a new release and recommended it, there was a black couple on the front and the women said no I don't want that one, I don't watch films with black people in them Friend walked away in disgust, the woman never came back.

excuse typos, I was rushing as my phone is about to die and I didn't want to lose my post!

does making a tv reporter go "wtf" count?

I'm Hungarian. My friends and were practicing a dance called "Palotás" for a show, it's very traditional, see costumes on photo.
We just had our dress rehearsal and were going to a dance practice and obviously talking about it. We didn't even see the tv crew doing interviews (not live, thank fuck!) and so when the reporter showed a mic under my nose and asked what I thought about Palotás I started going about how I love it and it's brilliant and what a coincidence because we've been practicing a lot...
she looked properly flummoxed. she was working for a news segment discussing a politician called Palotás.
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Trails not trials. Sigh. If they were called trials I can see why it might sound a bit suspicious!

I was in my last job for three years and I shared a bank of desks with a lovely woman in her 60s. We grew really close, talked about personal issues and I considered her a friend. She was quiet, kind, generous and her main priority in her life was her young grandchildren.

One day she was telling me about something that had happened over the weekend and, out of the blue, she said something so disgusting and horrifically racist about her neighbour I can’t even repeat it. I was stunned into silence. I wish I’d challenged it at the time but it was so sudden I wasn’t sure what had happened.

I distanced myself after that.

Last year, the seemingly perfectly sensible and rational friend who casually dropped the fact that he believed vapour trials from planes are mind controlling chemicals that are being dropped on us...DH and I didn't really have a response to that!

Many many years ago, I was about 26, but innocent, I was at the gym using a machine looking out of the window at the lovely view of a large public square. Quite a quiet evening and I started seeing groups of about 5 or 6 people in differing fancy dress. So 6 Mario's would pass, then 5 cowboys etc. Just group after group after group, no "normally" dressed people at all. I could not figure it out at all. Got dressed and went to the bus stop. The only people around were these groups and I was starting to freak out that I was in the Truman show, I don't know. Got on the bus, hoping it would be full of 'normal' people, no, more fancy dress. I had to ask "why are you all dressed up?" and the guy said... "Why aren't you?"

I was at hospital for a late pregnancy checkup, and the woman before me, also heavily pregnant had just gone into the doctor's room. I was sitting in the waiting room next to her husband, and we were just exchanging small talk, when he said " The worst thing for me is not being able to shag....." I was so shocked, I sat in horrified silence. When his wife came out of the doc's room, I looked at her and thought "You poor thing. "

Yuk!🤢

Good thread - that pigeon thing is really creepy.

I used to like to sit on a certain seat on the bus. it wasn't reserved for special needs or anything, I can't even remember the attraction now.

on one journey home the bus was almost empty, with most seats available. cue an old woman getting on and standing over me, demanding I give up my seat.
I said "I'm sorry, I won't. Please pick another seat."
To which she opened her mouth wide, pushed out her fake teeth and started twirling them around with her tongue to scare me off.

The opposite of you, OP.
I knew a young teacher I used to meet regularly at netball matches, on training courses, saw in town and would stop for a chat etc.
It was FOUR YEARS before I discovered the reason I saw her so often was that 'she' was identical twins, both teachers, in separate local schools. They shared a house and a wardrobe so looked really identical, but it turned out everyone knew there were two of them except me.

^"people", not "purple"

Great thread!
Nothing comes to mind atm except a very large number of "small world" examples. One is quite outing and involves two purple from two continents getting married that we knew separately and had heard about each fiance but not realised they were the ppl we knew!